2025-09-17 Meeting notes

5-10 mins

Types, DRY vs verbose for docs site

@Brian Smith

• Remove propTypes + defaultProps from <Chip>, <Toast>, <FormLabel> and <IconButton> by diana-villalvazo-wgu · Pull Request #3789 · openedx/paragon

  • @Hamzah Ullah - Alert.Heading - tslint error

  • Are people getting value out of seeing what props support type-wise on the docs site?

    • “Placement” being top/right/left/etc. vs top/right/center/left etc.

    • @Hamzah Ullah - yes, being able to see it on the docs site before using a component in the IDE

  • Is it possible to get the best of both worlds - DRY types and info on docs site

    • @Hamzah Ullah - Maybe turn named types into links to pages with info on the types

    • @Brian Smith Can we get this info into Gastby at all?

@Brian Smith to investigate how possible “best of both worlds” option is.

5 min

Inactive item styles

@Sam Daitzman

• @Sam Daitzman is working on a small proposal relating to inactive item style consistency / adding inactive styles to some components

• Frontend dev questions:

  • Is there a standard approach to inactive component appearance in Paragon documentation somewhere? (I’ve looked through GitHub/docs, haven’t found this yet, but I may not be using the right queries…)

  • Are there non-documented inactive styles for any components that are unusual / worth looking into?

• Kevin: inactive elements exempt from contrast requirements

  • Best practice is to leave out of tab order

• Planned next steps

  • Share initial proposal documenting these cases

  • Add a ticket to Paragon repo for “Add documentation for existing disabled/inactive states” especially for core components including all this info

  • Table: List existing uses within MFEs

  • List out components that do / don’t have inactive/disabled styles set up

    • Include: use of opacity / specific color styles / other behavior changes for disabled states

  • [maybe] Look into underlying Bootstrap behavior responsible for inactive styles

5 min

UX/UI WG → Design Working Group

@Sam Daitzman

• UX/UI WG is being renamed and restructured as Design WG based on member inputs! (Expect more of an announcement about this in the next day or so)

• Checking in on how the new Design WG will relate to Paragon (especially w.r.t. active frontend / Paragon design-side improvements and more design participation in Paragon WG)

5 mins

noIsolation for modal?

@Brian Smith

• feat: add prop to set noIsolation prop for modal popup by navinkarkera · Pull Request #3777 · openedx/paragon

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